The dust has just about settled from the 2025 edition of NAB! As always, it was fantastic to see all of our customers, partners, and industry friends in Las Vegas once again and get a real sense of the trends that will shape the media and entertainment technology industry in the coming months. There’s no…
Bitmovin Analytics provides valuable insights that can take the performance and efficiency of your video streaming workflow to new levels. By leveraging Analytics, you can optimize encoding profiles, improve player performance, gain deeper understanding of audience behavior, and ultimately, deliver a superior viewing experience while managing costs effectively. This blog post will explore seven ways…
There was a time when all you needed to build the best streaming experience was to create quality content and have a fast internet connection. However, with the explosion of over-the-top (OTT) platforms, the available options and viewers’ preferences have changed. This has caused an unprecedented segmentation of the OTT industry, as the needs of…
The world of video technology is constantly evolving, and one of the more interesting developments in recent years is the story of MV-HEVC (Multiview High Efficiency Video Coding). Even though it was added to the HEVC specification in 2014, MV-HEVC didn’t see much commercial use for almost a decade. That changed when Apple launched the…
Introduction Bitmovin’s VOD Encoder is known for its quality, speed, and cloud-native ability to scale quickly and resiliently. Advanced features like split-and-stitch encoding with Smart Chunking, Per-Title and 3-Pass encoding set it apart from other encoders on the market, in terms of both visual quality and bitrate efficiency. For our customers, it means lower costs…
In a rapidly evolving media landscape, the importance of collaboration has never been clearer. At Bitmovin, we have long championed the belief that the best solutions emerge when industry leaders join forces. Our recent NAB 2024 showcase underscored this belief, and as we approach IBC 2024 in Amsterdam, we are excited to highlight how our…
Introduction Many streaming providers are looking for ways to offer a more premium and high quality experience to their users. One often overlooked component in streaming quality is audio – and more specifically which audio bitrates, channel layouts, and even audio languages are available and how these options can be delivered to the viewers on…
This post covers some recent updates, focusing on the new Firefox AV1 support in Encrypted Media Extensions. Bitmovin has been supporting and advocating for use of the AV1 codec for several years, even though there have been gaps in playback support preventing adoption for some workflows. Slowly but surely, those gaps are being filled and the…
The dust has now settled from NAB, and I am still looking back in awe at the success of the Bitmovin Innovators Network and the community that we’ve built, together. A personal highlight for me was our exclusive semi-annual Bitmovin Innovators Network Partner Executive Networking Event which had over 100 attendees who joined to learn…
AI has been the hot buzz word in tech the past couple of years and we’re starting to see more and more practical applications for video emerging from the hype, like automatic closed-captioning and language translation, automated descriptions and summaries, and AI video Super Resolution upscaling. Bitmovin has especially focused on how AI can provide…
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